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DRAFT<br />
all FAIR accelerators will be a Global Positioning System (GPS) time receiver to which the GMT<br />
event transmission and the BuTiS clock trains will be synchronized and phase locked.<br />
The outline of the GMT system is shown in Figure 2.4.140. For each of the FAIR machines a<br />
dedicated timing event generator (EVG) generates all timing signals utilizing internal counters,<br />
event sequencers and hardware inputs. The EGV broadcasts information about the beam to be<br />
handled next and is pre-loaded with an event table for cycles or beam manipulation phases. Alternative<br />
event tables are supported to handle abort of beams even during run-time of a cycle. In<br />
addition to timing events other meta-information (e.g. accelerator cycle identifier, context and<br />
safe-beam flags) can be transmitted or broadcasted.<br />
A<br />
ACC A<br />
ACC B<br />
ACC C<br />
Master event generator<br />
EXP 1<br />
EXP 2<br />
Event generator A Event generator B Event Generator generator Generator generator C<br />
C<br />
Timing network<br />
B<br />
Event-stream concentrator<br />
Figure 2.4.140: Structure and topology of the general machine timing (GMT).<br />
A master cycle sequencer (MCS) will coordinate beams and cycles throughout the FAIR accelerators.<br />
It will orchestrate and synchronize every single machine EVG, establish a pattern of beams<br />
featuring a high level of truly parallel operation, take care of general restrictions, and will be able to<br />
handle alternative beam delivery scenarios in case of emergency or non-availability machines in<br />
the accelerator chain. The timing telegrams of all EVG and the MCS will be concentrated such that<br />
all information is available at any timing receiver in the facility.<br />
Event receivers (EVR) decode the event stream and provide hardware outputs or software interrupts<br />
based on event information. The EVR has a synchronized local clock such that data can be<br />
time-stamped to the microsecond level. EVR shall be available in all relevant form factors such as<br />
VME, PMC, cPCI as well as an integrated module for the FAIR standard device controller.<br />
Propagation and transmission delays will be compensated in the EVR in order to achieve synchronous<br />
event reception all over the facility.<br />
The upstream channel of the GMT system can be used to synchronously and deterministically<br />
exchange short telegrams between dedicated devices as is needed e.g. for bunch-to-bucket transfer.<br />
It is being investigated whether the upstream communication will be also used to gather interlock<br />
and safety-critical state information from the device level.<br />
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